cleavage
noun
the act of cleaving or splitting.
cleavages
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pluralof cleavage.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“There are toxic cleavages and an incipient social fragmentation that can easily turn into instability.”
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2024
Pop music has always gone hand in hand with strong opinions and heated debates — including the kinds of generational cleavages that inspire finger-wagging lectures.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2021
More recently, cleavages stemming from class, race, religion, gender, and ethnicity, split the country into antagonistic factions.
From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2020
Grievances and societal cleavages exist everywhere, waiting to be exploited.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2020
There is a perfect cleavage parallel to the orthopinacoid and less perfect cleavages parallel to the faces of the prism.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
